Future of leadership - many Futurist articles, videos, conference keynote presentations for senior leadership teams of multinational corporations by Futurist Patrick Dixon - on Leadership, Strategy and Corporate Ethics. Patrick Dixon is one of the world's best-known keynote speakers on leadership, strategy, business ethics and global trends, has worked with hundreds of the world's largest companies and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today. Leadership and business strategy. What is leadership? What is strategy? Leadership syles, skills, development and leadership qualities. Why business ethics will be a number one survival issue for many large companies. Clients include Microsoft, Barclays Bank, HSBC, AT&T, Aviva, Prudential, Siemens, Nokia, Phillips, US Federal Government, Fedex, BP, Unilever, McDonalds, GSK, Forbes, Fortune, Accenture, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and World Bank. Patrick Dixon has given keynotes on leadership related issues at events in North America, Central America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Baltic States, Scandinavia, Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and Asia Pacific. Themes: How to make things happen. Effective leadership training, leadership methods, change management, ethical leadership, leadership integrity, virtual teams, multinational leadership, inspirational and motivational leadership. How to develop strong strategies for growth.

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Forced to cancel your corporate event because of Coronavirus? I've given virtual keynotes to audiences all over the world - addressing every industry on a wide range of global trends. I am also an expert one Coronavirus. At one event I appeared as a hologram onstage, and on another occasion I gave a virtual keynote to local participants in 7 different nations, all linked into the same live global corporate event. That was in the middle of the SARS crisis in 2003, when many companies were cancelling flights by executive teams to corporate events. We had to move to virtual conferencing. And as a global authority on viral pandemics (physician as well as a Futurist) I would be delighted to help you.

And I've given live webinars to up to 800,000 people. So what's the secret?

I have been teaching for over a decade how speed of change will be a huge challenge for all leaders and will demand Agile Leadership.

Strategies of large corporations risk being overtaken by events.

Your world can change faster than you can hold a board meeting - and I'm not just talking about political changes, energy crises, civil conflicts, trade wars or mutant viruses.

Every large business contains hundreds of potential Wild Card risks - each of which may be very unlikely, but the combined risks can be huge - with very high probability of disruption from one event or another in any year.

I'm working on a new edition of The Future of Almost Everything book - which will contain a chapter on life in 2100, looking at key trends for the next 20 years, in the light of what happened from 2090 to 2100...

Forecasting 80 years ahead might seem an impossible thing to do.

So what happens if you live for a while in 2100 and return to tell the story, to make comparisons? In what ways are you most "culture shocked" and why?

It is easy to assume that life will continue to change at frenetic pace, and that many things will be almost unrecognisable by 2100, but will that really turn out to be true?

Winston Churchill once said that if you want to understand the future, look at history.

80 years ago, in 1948 was in many ways a very different world - with rapid reconstruction in Europe after the Second World War. Yet more things have endured than we might think....

Keynote summary on Corporate Ethics - by Patrick Dixon, for Majid Al Futtaim, Dubai, in huge IMAX cinema, largest screen in Middle East and N Africa. Celebrating launch of their new Code of Conduct - ethical guide for 40,000 employees globally, including Carrefour retailer which they own.

Why coporate ethics really matters. How to write a great ethical code of conduct.

I have been helping large corporations develop new strategy for almost 20 years.

Here are 5 things I have learned: strategies get overtaken by events so be agile; use megatrends to stretch future-thinking; focus on customers and innovation; dig deep into current business challenges; involve many different teams to create ownership and commitment.

How to give really brilliant keynotes and presentations. How to wow your audience. The best keynote speakers create pure audience magic in the first few seconds: a relationship with energises, informs and inspires.

Interview with world-class keynote speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon. The first key is to really know your audience....

How corporate strategies are being overtaken by events. Conference keynote speaker on Risk management complex in banking and payments - need partnerships and collaboration.

Keynote at client event for G2 Web Services. Boards of most banks are only partially aware of total risks they are exposed to. Just look at cyberattacks. Benchmarking risk really risky. Benchmarking is toxic to risk management – when risk managers benchmark their own bank...

Here is a 5 second guide to the 5 minute guide. 1) Bring in outsiders to challenge your world view. 2) Listen to your customers - but don't believe them. 3) Read widely and be curious about all you meet. 4) Review your strategies each year. 5) Agile leadership teams.

Leadership, managing rapid change in a globalized digital world. High velocity decision making with multiple strategies for growth in different circumstances. The world is changing faster than you can hold a board meeting. Shortened production cycles. Accelerating change and business transformation. Examples from Tetrapak manufacturing and food packaging. Viral events, economic chaos and crisis. Managing multiple risks. How lucky are you in business? Being prepared for the unexpected. Contingency planning.

“Uncommon sense, Common nonsense” is a much-needed blast of fresh air. Written by Jules Goddard and Tony Eccles, this book is clever, witty, challenging and provocative - a sharply written and entertaining attack on all kinds of management myths, warning of dangerous and futile nonsense promoted by many so-called business gurus. Full of leadership common sense. Deeply rooted in daily realities of business life. It will challenge how you think about running a corporation, leading teams, strategy, making things happen. Worth buying for the chapter on Discovery Programmes alone.

All large businesses get hit by crises on a regular basis. It is a fact of life. And the larger the organisation, the more frequently they happen. Every employee is an ethical risk of some kind. Every business unit contains perhaps hundreds of risks. Combinations of risks are far more common than most people imagine. Risk management means taking steps to reduce impact of future events, contingency planning, thinking ahead. A crisis provides an ideal opportunity to re-focus on what you are doing across the busines. Here are 16 steps to take when crisis occurs…

How to run business safely in a globalised world where every country has its own ethical code. Managing ethical risks. Why compliance is dead except as a defensive strategy. How corporations are being overtaken by shifts in expectations. Responsibility for ethical performance of corporations.

Trust is not enough to create great leadership. All strong leaders create trust but also provide vision, direction, purpose, sense of mission -- around which followers unite, forming powerful and effective teams. Management tools only work when vision is clear, strategy is accepted as the way foreward. Otherwise teams become demotivated, lack focus and deviate from the priorities of senior leadership.Show how teams make a difference, save lives, improve the environment. Win war for talent. Believe in your teams. Human resources, recruitment, team management, development and staff training. Presentation for Welsh Parliament.